Dept Administrator A2 - Film and Digital Arts

Overview

The Department of Film and Digital Arts at the University of New Mexico invites applications for the position of Department Administrator A2. We are seeking an individual who is professional, energetic, and self-motivated. Our department is home to 713 undergraduate majors and strives to sustain a friendly, supportive environment in which all staff, faculty, and students can thrive. The department offers a BFA degree in film production, a BA degree (concentrations in film production, gaming, animation, and film history / criticism), with 11 full-time faculty, 30 adjunct faculty, 4 full-time and 10 part-time staff members. We are housed in three buildings containing classrooms, computer labs, equipment check-out spaces, editing rooms, a movie theater, and a black-box studio, as well as faculty and administrative offices.

The Department Administrator oversees and manages all fiscal and budgetary activities of the department. Funds managed include instructional and general operating, course and tech fees, grants and overhead, and non-endowed and endowed spending. In addition, this individual manages and oversees all administrative functions of the department, including HR activities for faculty and staff, course scheduling, and curriculum updates, and acts as building manager for our facilities. Finally, this person must have the ability to develop operating policies and procedures in collaboration with the Chair and implement short and long-range goals. The Department Administrator will participate with the Chair and senior departmental faculty in strategic and operational decision making as a member of the department's leadership team.

Famous for the unique light and landscape that attract artists and scholars from around the globe, New Mexico is ranked as a "film hotspot" by the Hollywood Reporter. For the past six years, Moviemaker magazine named Albuquerque as one of the best places for filmmakers to live and work in the United States. Netflix adopted the city as its only U.S. production hub, and NBC Universal opened studio space downtown. Albuquerque sits on the traditional homelands of the Pueblo of Sandia. Many peoples enrich the geographically stunning landscape with their histories, arts and sciences, languages, and cultural values. UNM is a large "majority minority" state school with approximately 22,000 students.

UNM offers parental leave and tuition for partners and dependent children on an LGBTQ+ friendly campus where academic freedom is valued.

See the Position Description for additional information.

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